[She manages a smile, and looks a bit less like she's going to actually cry.]

About a year, local time. Though someone from my future showed up briefly, so either I eventually go back to the time I left or we're into some weird alternate universe, quantum ... yeah.

[Stay focused, Cosima.]

I was pretty sure I'd just lost it, for a while, but if this is a hallucination it's been unexpectedly internally consistent and includes a lot of boring parts where no one's invented electricity or pop music or ballpoint pens.

[Her pen ran out of ink months ago, and it was a very sad day.]